It might not be Steve McQueen’s first choice, but coolness does not pay the bills.

Tybee Island is considering purchasing Volkswagen Passats for its police department to use as a way to cut fuel costs. The diesel model being considered reportedly gets about 35 miles per gallon in city, almost twice as much as the Dodge Chargers currently being used.

Nicky Alexander has contributed $50 towards Donald “Tybee Dac” Cowart’s run for Tybee Island City Council, according to campaign disclosure records.The contribution is a surprising one to me because Cowart is currently facing a felony charge of theft by deception for allegedly cashing $7,000 worth of bad checks at Alexander’s check cashing business last year. Cowart has entered a not guilty plea and a jury trial is scheduled in Chatham County Superior Court for Dec. 5.

Chatham’s health ranked 61 out of Georgia’s 159 counties, according to a study released this week by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

While the overall health ranking was in the top 40 percent, the rate of Chlamydia infections (596 out of every 100,000, compared to 411 for Georgia overall) was a bit alarming. Chatham was ranked 128. (Based on 2009 data)

Alexis Alexander said she made a “bad call” when she sent out about 1,000 fliers indicating she would be the first female Chatham County Commissioner of the 5th District, if she is elected this November.

Alexander said she did not know at the time that Deanie Frazier served as the commission’s 5th District representative from 1985 to 1995. Frazier died in 2006.

Sometimes I don't get to post some of the best quotes I hear during my coverage of the city. When that occurs, I use this blog to make sure the often humorous comments do not disappear with my notebooks. Enjoy.

"Not all these people can maintain themselves," said Sean Brandon, Savannah's management service bureau chief, regarding proposed taxi clean-up fees for inebriated riders.

"It's telling me the driver is blind," said Savannah Alderman John Hall regarding a proposal to allow service animals in taxis.

The name of Alexander Townsend, the 21-year-old Savannah College of Art and Design student who died after crashing into a tree early Sunday morning, was spray painted on the side of the federal building next to Telfair Square.

Someone misses him enough to tag his name, along with R.I.P, in lime green spray paint on the wall of the building. Apparently, the Jepson Center for the Arts was also hit, but it had been cleaned off by the time I checked it out at around 3:30 p.m. There is something else written too.

Having heard my fill of politics this week, covering city government, I was surprised to get an extra dose at what I thought would be a safe refuge on Friday.

Attorney Dana Braun could not resist interjecting some politics when he spoke during the funeral service that afternoon for former Mayor Floyd Adams Jr.’s, who he served on the city council with in the ‘90s.

You would think a hair stylist would be skeptical of someone so strangely coifed.But Chatham County Commissioner Dean Kicklighter, who trims tresses to pay the bills, has become enamored with real estate developer, reality TV star, and potential presidential candidate Donald Trump.Kicklighter recently praised Trump on his Facebook page and encouraged him to run after watching him during some recent television appearances to promote his reality show “Celebrity Apprentice.”“Everything he said sounds to me like things we need to do in this country,” Kicklighter said when I asked ab

I thought this Baltimore Sun article about the trouble Baltimore is having with the city-owned convention center hotel was interesting, in light of Chatham County's consideration of backing bonds to help pay of a convention hotel on Hutchinson Island. The Baltimore hotel is not meeting booking and income expectations and the city may have to subsidize the debt payments using general fund dollars, as a result.